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Hannah Fernando & Ian MacEwan
Bingewatch is your essential TV guide with journalists Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando featuring the latest releases on UK streaming platforms including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Paramount+ and more.
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Whether you're looking for your next weekend binge, a quick weeknight watch, or want to stay up to date with the latest bingable releases, Bingewatch delivers the insights you need to make the most of your streaming subscriptions.
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Whether you're looking for your next weekend binge, a quick weeknight watch, or want to stay up to date with the latest bingable releases, Bingewatch delivers the insights you need to make the most of your streaming subscriptions.
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Nov 24, 2023 • 20min
Archie | Boat Story | Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas | Squid Game: The Challenge
This week on Bingewatch we have Christmas, we have suspense, and we have Carey Grant. What's not to love? Featuring review of the newest stuff on UK streaming platforms, including:Jason Isaacs stars as Cary Grant in biogrpahical ITVX drama Archie alongside Laura Aikman, Jason Watkins and Kara Tointon.You can never just find a haul of drugs on a remote island with no strings attached, can you? Daisy Haggard and Paterson Joseph find out the hard way in BBC iPlayer's Boat Story.Hot off the heels of Ted Lasso and hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, Hannah Waddingham was the obvious choice for Apple TV Plus' Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas.We loved the series, and now we get the real life game as the hotly hyped Squid Game: The Challenge arrives on Netflix.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Nov 16, 2023 • 26min
The Crown | Brawn: The Impossible Formula One Story | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | JFK: The Home Movie That Shook the World
This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah review some of the biggest new shows to hits UK streaming platforms, including...The final season of The Crown kicks off on Netflix, with Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Jonathan Pryce and Elizabeth Debicki leading the all star series fit for a Queen.Jensen Button and Keanu Reeves team up to look back on a true sporting underdog story in the Disney Plus series Brawn: The Impossible Formula One StoryAfter the world-shattering revelation that monsters are real, two siblings follow in their father's footsteps to uncover their family's connection to a secretive organization in Apple TV's Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.60 years on from President John F Kennedy's assassination. This is the gripping true story of Abraham Zapruder, who filmed the iconic moment. The film, JFK, is available on ITVX.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Nov 10, 2023 • 22min
007: Road to a Million | Robbie Williams | Culprits | The Buccaneers
This week, Ian and Hannah review the biggest new TV shows on UK streaming platforms, including...You get to feel like James Bond and possibly win a million pounds? The perfect reality show finally exists in Prime Video's 007: Road to a Million.British pop icon Robbie Williams follows in the footsteps of British sporting icon David Beckham with his own self-titled Netflix documentary.Gemma Arterton stars in this action crime drama thriller heist caper series thing on Disney+ called Culprits.Apple TV are getting into the period drama game with The Buccaneers, a visual Anglo-American feast for the eyes... if you like that sort of thing.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Nov 3, 2023 • 22min
All the Light We Cannot See | Sly | Fingernails | Quiz Lady
This week on Bingewatch, reviews of...A blind French girl and German soldier cross paths during World War II with unexpected results. All the Light We Cannot See, starring Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie, is on Netflix now.If you don't think you've seen enough biographical documentaries this year, then you're in luck because Sly arrives on Netflix, telling the Rocky to Rambo story of action hero Sylvester Stallone.What if technology could determine true love? That's a reality in the world of Fingernails, a new kinda romcom with Annie Murphy and Luke Wilson, arriving on Apple TV.Awkwafina and Sandra Oh team up as sisters for new comedy on Disney Plus.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Oct 27, 2023 • 22min
Life on Our Planet | Milli Vanilli | The Enfield Poltergeist | Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the British Empire?
From the beauty of the real world to the terrifying extraterrestrial, this week's batch of new releases will have you bingeing like there's no tomorrow!Steven Spielberg and Morgan Freeman team up to create a nature documentary to rival the best of Attenborough, as Life on Our Planet hits Netflix.80s pop duo Milli Vanilli get their own music documentary on Paramount Plus.One of the most famous haunted cases in the world gets the Apple TV treatment in The Enfield Poltergeist, starring Olivia Booth-Ford and Ingrid Evans.Now TV answers a question centuries in the making, with the help of Al Murray - Why Does Everyone Hate the British Empire?Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Oct 20, 2023 • 23min
Bodies | The Burning Girls | Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose | Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story
On this week's Bingewatch with Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando...Stephen Graham comes to Netflix in Bodies, a trippy detective drama following the same murder in four different time periods.Just in time for Halloween comes horror comedy The Burning Girls on Paramount Plus, starring Samantha Morton and Ruby Strokes.Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose. That's the title. It's on Prime Video, and if the title alone doesn't reel you in then nothing will.Disney Plus give us the big scoop on 2020's biggest celebrity scandal in Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Oct 13, 2023 • 23min
Interview with the Vampire | Frasier | Lessons in Chemistry | The Greatest Show Never Made
This week sees a remake of a classic 90s film, a reboot of a classic 90s comedy, and the crazy story of the show that never was...The classic 90s movie based on the classic novel gets the classic reboot treatment as Interview with the Vampire comes to BBC iPlayer.Kelsey Grammar is joined by a new cast of characters as Frasier returns to Boston in the much-anticipated Paramount Plus reboot.Based on Bonnie Garmus' book Lessons in Chemistry, Oscar winner Brie Larson stars as the woman desperate to be accepted as a science teacher in 1950s America, and it's on Apple TV Plus.It was the Fyre Festival of reality TV, and the story is almost too crazy to believe. This is The Greatest Story Never Made on Prime Video.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Oct 6, 2023 • 19min
Fair Play | Beckham | Totally Killer | Ghosts
Haunted houses, murderous rampages, and David Beckham... it's Halloween season folks, and Ian & Hannah are breaking down some of the best new stuff on UK streaming platforms.October would not be complete without some blood-soaked popcorn, and Prime Video are gladly obliging with their slasher horror teen comedy romp Totally Killer with Sabrina's Kiernan Shipka and Olivia Holt.Hedge funds, troubled marriages, and Alden Ehrenreich are all the makings of a Netflix hit in new movie Fair Play, co-starring Phoebe Dynevor.If you have your own Netflix documentary, you're either a realtor, a serial killer, or a national hero. Luckily for David Beckham, it's the latter.RIP Ghosts, as the fifth and final season streams on BBC iPlayer. But there is some consolation, as a 2023 Christmas Special is in the works.

Sep 28, 2023 • 23min
The Fake Sheikh | Gen V | Boiling Point | Flora & Son
This week on Bingewatch, Ian & Hannah tackle superheroes, chefs, and undercover journalists, as we take a look at the biggest new releases on UK streaming platforms...A new true crime documentary about tabloid journalist Mazher Mahmood, The Fake Sheikh arrives on Amazon Prime Video.Stephen Graham's Boiling Point gets a spin-off series on BBC iPlayer.We're all eagerly awaiting season four of The Boys, but spin-off show Gen V will have to suffice for now!Flora & Son is a new comedy drama starring Eve Hewson as a single mother struggling through parenthood... until she finds a guitar. Watch on Apple TV now.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!

Sep 22, 2023 • 23min
The Continental | Still Up | Crime | Sex Education
It's time to turn on the TV and get ready for a long, hard sofa sesh because this week's new releases will fill you with pleasure...From the John Wick universe comes new spin-off drama The Continental, arriving on Prime Video.Whoever said insomnia is no joke may well be proven wrong by Apple TV's latest comedy series Still Up.On ITVX, a crime drama adapted from a crime story called Crime. The plot's a mystery.Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson and co. return as popular Netflix series Sex Education reaches its big climax. Will it go out with a bang or be a massive flop?Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now!